Cool Infographics - Blog. Daily Infographic. 23andMe. “34 year-old mystery solved!” by Stanley Pranin. Today I had a big surprise waiting for me. One of Aikido Journal’s Facebook fans was kind enough to send me the following link of a Japanese-language movie whose English title is: The Power of Aikido. Being curious, I clicked on the link and lo and behold saw the figure of the Second Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba doing a stylized randori demonstration as the introduction to a commercial Japanese martial arts movie. When the title came on in Japanese, I was stunned: 激突合気道 (Gekitotsu Aikido, literally “Crash Aikido”). I had been looking for this film for 34 years! Here is the announcement I wrote back in 1976 when this movie first came out: “O-SENSEI MOVIE RELEASED IN JAPAN Aiki News learned recently that a commercial movie dealing with the life of O-Sensei as a young man was released in Japan in November (1975).
[Quoted from p. 11 of Aiki News #16, January 1976] Not surprisingly for a commercial film, this production plays fast and loose with historical fact. The Truth.com.